Battle Over 2nd Amendment Rights is Being Fought on the State Level [video included]
P.A.N.D.A. People Against The NDAA
March 10, 2013
Florida State Senator Audrey Gibson has proposed that residents who want to purchase ammunition have to enroll in anger management classes and wait for 3 days while background checks are conducted just as with purchasing a firearm.
Gibson said: “This is not about guns,” Gibson said. “This is about ammunition and not only for the safety of the general community, but also for the safety of law enforcement.”
She claims that citizens are stockpiling ammunition and that this is contributing to potentially dangerous situations that would thwart law enforcement’s ability to conduct proper policing services in local communities. Gibson asserts that “it’s about getting people to think, really, about how much ammunition they need. It’s a step, I think, in a safer direction. It’s about getting people to think before they buy.”
Gibson’s bill states that it is unlawful to:
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Montreal Police Make Mass Arrests During 17th Annual Anti Police Brutality Protest [video included]
by Terry Wilson
Canadian Awareness Network
March 16, 2013
The 17th annual anti police brutality protests took place in Montreal, on March 15 2013.
According to main stream sources, the police “jumped on the march early”.
Cops jump on anti-brutality march early
By CHRISTOPHER CURTIS
montrealgazette.com
Montreal’s annual anti-brutality march instantly descended into chaos Friday as riot cops snatched protesters from the crowd before the demonstration even began.
The notoriously combative event saw police chase hundreds of protesters through a crowd of bystanders downtown, occasionally hurling CS gas bombs in an attempt to splinter the group. After a few skirmishes saw two officers hospitalized, the riot squad surrounded demonstrators on Ste. Catherine St. E. and began making mass arrests.
Two groups were corralled against a wall near the Berri UQAM métro station, with police kicking and striking those who wouldn’t move fast enough. In the end, about 250 people were handcuffed and taken away by the busload.
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Anti-Police Brutality Protest Snuffed Out by SPVM
by Katie McGroarty
thelinknewspaper.ca
At first, it seemed like things were over before they had even started.
A few hundred protesters gathered at the corner of Ontario St. and St. Urbain St., just north of the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal headquarters to protest against police brutality. The annual demonstration, now in it’s 17th consecutive year, started somewhat unusually, with the SPVM blocking every road leading out of the corner in an attempt to halt the march from beginning.
The demonstration was declared illegal almost immediately after its start around 5 p.m., due to organizers failing to provide an itinerary for the demonstration.
Arrests began when the crowd had yet to leave the square, resulting in a brief brawl and at least one injured protester.
As the police unblocked St. Urbain St., the crowd marched south but were forced to disperse into various groups—before making it one block down the road.
A few firecrackers were lit by protesters but the crowd was less violent than in previous years, when marches had quickly devolved into riots.
Different crowds throughout downtown were kettled, stopping the hundreds of protesters from ever regrouping. Police were reluctant to let any one out of the blockades.
For the next three hours the fractured demonstrations were broken up by SPVM officers blocking multiple street corners, forcing protesters into smaller groups, where they were then kettled and arrested.
Some protesters were released, though those who were not were identified and brought into buses to be taken to an undisclosed location.
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The video’s now coming out of the protest are very similar to what I witnessed at the 2010 Toronto G20 and what we saw more recently at the student protests in the summer of 2012. High amounts of violence being committed by the police, with zero tolerance.
To be fair the protestors did not abide by certain bylaws, so the police (technically) had the grounds to move in. But what we are witnessing is a total loss of common sense in policing. This is an annual rally against police brutality that is now into its 17th year. Is it a logical step for police to “jump in early” and begin making mass arrests (for minor infractions)? Or does that sound more like something that happens in a police state, rather than a country that claims to embrace freedom of speech/assembly ?
Manning Leaked Testimony: US Army a ‘child torturing ants with magnifying glass’ [video]
Russia Today
March 13, 2013
A speech freedom advocacy group has released audio of Bradley Manning’s testimony about his motives for leaking secret US government documents to WikiLeaks. It marks the first time the public has heard Manning’s voice since his 2010 arrest. LISTEN TO FULL MANNING’S TESTIMONY HERE: http://bit.ly/16qdkRu
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‘Racist Murder’: Brooklyn in chaos after cops kill teen [video]
Russia Today
March 13, 2013
Brooklyn’s faced yet another rally as more than a hundred people continued to voice their anger over the killing of 16-year-old black boy by police officers, who claim the teenager pointed a gun at them. One of the boy’s relatives was reportedly arrested and two protesters have been led away in handcuffs. The deadly shooting has sparked concerns of systematic racism in the NYPD. READ MORE: http://rt.com/usa/police-flood-brookl…
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Accused Criminal Becomes First Jesuit Pope [video]
The Truther Girls
March 15, 2013
The new Pope Francis, aka Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has been accused by some of complicity in crimes against humanity. His excuse, offered by others, is that the Argentinian Dirty War was tough on everyone and he just dis what he had to do under the circumstances. Is that acceptable? Not to the ITCCS, who have issued an arrest warrant for him via their common law court in Belgium.
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DARPA scientists want to create database of all conversations
End the Lie – Independent News
March 4, 2013
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Your digital footprint could be getting a whole lot bigger: Pentagon scientists are searching for a way to transcribe every real-world conversation that happens into computer-readable files.
Robert Beckhusen of Wired’s Danger Room says it wouldn’t be unlike a real-life Twitter feed or an “email archive for everyday speak.”
“Imagine living in a world where every errant utterance you make is preserved together,” Beckhusen writes in an article this week that explores a Defense Department project that’s been undertaken by its Darpa laboratories and is now in the hands of a University of Texas computer scientists named Matt Lease.
Least has received a few hundred thousand dollars from Darpa — the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — to help find a way to take cell phone conversations, board room meetings and every miniscule real world back-and-forth and have them digitized.
The project is being called “Blending Crowdsourcing with Automation for Fast, Cheap and Accurate Analysis of Spontaneous Speech,” and Lease will receive $300,000 in all from the government to work on it after winning a 2012 Young Faculty Award from Darpa last year.
Lease has previously worked with the Pentagon scientists on another project, Effective Affordable Reusable Speech-to-text, or EARS, which had him trying to find a better way to transcribe dialogue into text. Now after winning the respect of Darpa, he’s putting that research to work in hopes of finding a way to streamline all real world conversations into digital transcriptions. And by strategically crowd-sourcing the information, he thinks he might be able to do just that.
“Like other AI [artificial intelligence], it can only go so far, which is based on what the state-of-the-art methodology can do,” Lease tells Wired. “So what was exciting to me is thinking about going back to some of that work and now taking advantage of crowdsourcing and applying that into the mix.”
Lease says he saw both the “need and opportunity to really make conversational speech more accessible, more part of our permanent record instead of being so ephemeral, and really trying to imagine what this world would look like if we really could capture all these conversations and make use of them effectively going forward,” Lease adds.
Wired reports that the end result could mean that conversations and events could be transcribed and edited through crowdsourcing, then eventually and easily be shared with friends, family and colleagues. Once digitalizes, those dialogues could also be pursued for general search purposes. By uploading everything, though, some concerns are quickly showing up. For one, there’s the matter of possible privacy violations brought on by the seemingly constant collection of data. Then, of course, there’s the matter of what is being done with it.
According to a 2003 memo from the Congressional Research Service, the EARS project that first got Lease involved in the Pentagon was being considered for a rather particular kind of use. That report said that dialogue could be inputted into the system by way of telephone conversations so that “the military, intelligence and law enforcement communities” could “extract clues about the identity of speakers.”
For now, Lease won’t even speculate as to why the Pentagon wants him to develop his crowdsourcing project. He agrees, however, that there is an issue with “respecting the privacy rights of multiple people involved.”
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Florida Residents Report Mysterious Black Military Aircraft
by Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
March 14, 2013
More people are seeing what was not long ago a snickering pejorative for the establishment media.
It used to be a favorite pastime of the establishment media and its snobbish intelligentsia to poke fun at the “black helicopter crowd,” who they dismissively wrote off as loons and conspiracy nuts. More recently, the Department of Southern Poverty Security has insisted most of them are white racists bent on destroying the country.
Now that the Pentagon and the feds have stepped up their effort to militarize state and local law enforcement and conduct in-your-face military operations at civilian airports in the dead of night and stage mock strafing of civilian traffic in populated urban centers, more and more people are seeing what was not long ago a snickering pejorative for scriptwriters with degrees from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
Ocala.com reported on Tuesday a number of people in and around Gainesville, Florida, seeing not only black military aircraft, but “mysterious military-style aircraft.”
When Eva Angelini heard the roar of aircraft engines on Saturday night, she ran outside to see the sort of black aircraft the corporate media insists only make an appearance in the feverish imagination of paranoid conspiracy theorists. “We ran out and looked up in the sky and right over our heads, very low, the sky was filled with black aircraft which were flying without lights,” Angelini told Ocala.com.
Other residents in the Ocala area reported seeing low-flying military aircraft over the last few days. Linda Aguiar, Gainesville airport spokeswoman, said the aircraft are part of an operation being conducted by the Department of Defense. No word, however, from the guys who train – until recently on military bases and away from civilians – to kill people and break stuff in the service of international bankers, as Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, said way back in 1933.
Part of the operation seems to be a deliberate attempt by the Pentagon to keep civilians in the dark. “Reports of black military-style aircraft buzzing the Ocala area were rampant over the weekend and into Monday, but no one seems to know what they are doing in the area,” Ocala.com reports.
When asked, the military said they don’t conduct exercises at three in the morning. “We have some P-8 Poseidons training in the area, but they wouldn’t be up at 3 in the morning. Other than that, we have nothing going on at Pinecastle (the bombing range in the Ocala National Forest) and again, they wouldn’t conduct operations at those hours,” said Kaylee LaRocque, a spokeswoman for the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.
Ocala.com also reported no operations out of the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
The military, however, admitted the Canadian military is training in the area. “The only thing we have are some Canadian F-18s training in the Tampa area,” said Airman Michael Ellis, of the MacDill public affairs office. “There are no helicopters assigned to the base, so they are not ours and we would not fly at those hours. Those fall in the quiet hours which start at 6 p.m., I believe.”
Local government is clueless, of course. It isn’t unusual for the military not to inform local government about their operations, especially those violating “quiet hours” supposedly enforced in consideration of tax payers who foot the bill for expensive black helicopters said not to exist by the establishment media. If the Department of Endless War and Misery wanst to violate the spirit of Posse Comitatus, though, and use local law enforcement in their operation – for instance, establishing military style checkpoints – the Pentagon and law enforcement will usually roll out a statement for public consumption or, at least, provide some sort of facile explanation after civilians complain.
“We have been receiving a number of calls over the weekend and numerous calls on Monday from citizens reporting military aircraft. We have no official information on what they are and what they are doing,” Sgt. Angy Scroble of the Ocala Police Department told Ocala.com.
Residents wanting to know what’s going on have posted messages on the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. The cops are, naturally, in the dark on secretive military operations using “mysterious” black aircraft.
“We’ve checked around with emergency management and we have no idea who it is,” Capt. James Pogue said.
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It turns out Airman Michael Ellis of the MacDill AFB public affairs office wasn’t in the loop.
The mysterious “aircraft, which have been buzzing the area since Saturday, are coming from the University Air Center at the Gainesville Regional Airport as part of a larger training exercise in South Florida conducted by the U.S. Special Operations Command, based at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, said Maj. Mike Burns, a public affairs spokesman for the command,” Ocala.com reported after filing the story linked above.
The United States Special Operations Command, according to a Wikipedia write-up, conducts several covert and clandestine missions, such as unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, psychological warfare, civil affairs, direct action, counter-terrorism and War on Drugs operations.
“There are no exercises in the Ocala area, but Ocala is directly in the transit route,” Burns told the website. He would not say why aircraft were taking off from Gainesville for exercises in the Miami area.
As noted above, the military used Blackhawks to stage simulated warfare in a densely populated downtown Miami earlier this year. They fired blank rounds of machine gun fire, staged strafing runs while troops rappelled from choppers and set-up road blockades.
“All over the skies of Miami at night, just a few days ago,” Karen De Coster wrote in January. She said the “event was for the purposes of ‘meeting requirements,’ preparing for overseas military drills, and making sure the equipment is in check.”
Ocala.com cites a military press release issued by Miami Dade County. It “advises that the exercise includes the use of military helicopters and simulated gunfire. The training is meant to prepare participants for combat missions in urban areas and to prepare forces for upcoming overseas missions, according to the release.”
One resident told Ocala.com he was in fear for his life. “I turned and ran” after special op helicopters flew over his house at tree top level. “That’s not right what they are doing,” he said.
It may not be right, but it is certainly business as usual in post-9/11 America. Civilians have to be acclimated to the presence of a standing army, especially now that the perpetual war on phantom terrorists has arrived in America and Constitution-spouting white men are allowed to practice the Second Amendment.
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